Esegesi NT: Scritti giovanneiRA0213

To familiarize students with the Gospel of John, the Letters of John, and the Book of Revelation in order to be able to employ them effectively in academic, pastoral and liturgical contexts as well as for personal reading and meditation.

I. The Gospel and Letters of John. 1. Literary features: structure, unity and cohesiveness, vocabulary, style. 2. Historical features: origin, composition, authorship. 3. Theological features: ecclesiology, eschatology, Christology, discipleship. 4. Exegesis: selected passages. II. The Book of Revelation. 1. Literary features: apocalyptic literature and apocalypticism, structure, symbolism. 2. Historical features: origin, authorship. 3. Theological features: imagery, interpretation. 4. Exegesis: selected passages.

JOHN & 1-2-3 JOHN: Brown, Raymond. The Gospel According to John. 2 vols. Garden City: Doubleday, 1966-1970; Brown, Raymond. The Epistles of John. Garden City: Doubleday, 1982; Brown, Raymond. An Introduction to the New Testament. New York: Doubleday, 1997; Brown, Raymond. An Introduction to the Gospel of John. Edited, Updated, Introduced and Concluded by Francis J. Moloney. New York: Doubleday, 2003; Schnackenburg, Rudolf. The Gospel According to St. John. London: Burns & Oats, 1980; Barrett, Charles Kingsley. The Gospel According to St. John. An Introduction with Commentary and Notes on the Greek Text. London: SPCK, 1995; Beasley-Murray, Gregore. John. Nashville: Nelson, ²1999; Moloney, Francis John. The Gospel of John. Collegeville: Glazier – Liturgical Press, 1998; Van der Watt, Jan. An Introduction to the Johannine Gospel and Letters. London: T. & T. Clark, 2007; Moloney, Francis. The Gospel of John. Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1998; Skinner, Christopher. Reading John. Eugene: Cascade, 2015. REVELATION: Prigent, Pierre. Commentary on the Apocalypse of St. John. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2001; Collins, John. The Apocalyptic Imagination. An Introduction to Jewish Apocalyptic Literature. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998; Moloney, Francis. The Apocalypse of John: A Commentary. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2020; Aune, David. Revelation. 3 vols. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1997.